Carline.



L. A. HOERR.

CARUYE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.15.1915.

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LOUIS A. HOERR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CARLINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil ed February 15, 1915. Serial No. 8,226.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Loms A. I-Ionnn, a citizen of the "United States ofAmerica, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, haveinvented a certain new and usetul Carline, of which the following issuch a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying'drawings, forming ..-ert of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a carline and has for its object the productionof a carline which will be provided with a sufficiently large seat forthe ridge pole and which will be adapted to support a ridge pole whichis not in alinement with the underfaces of the purlins, and, which will,further, enable the carline to be secured to the ridge pole withoutweakening the truss beam of the carline. Still another object of myinvention is to provide improved means for securing the ends of thecarline to the side plates of the car.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one form of carline madein accordance with my invention, Figure 1 is a -vertical section on areduced scale of the root of the car to which my carline is applied, thefilling block being omitted; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a. section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; andFig. at is a top plan view of one end of the carline and the side plateof the car to which the same is secured.

Like marks of reference refer to similar .parts in the several views ofthe drawings.

The carline consists of a tie beam 5, a truss beam 6, and a strut 7. Theends of the ca'rline are secured to the side plates 8 of the car. formedof angle iron, the horizontal webs of the two beams being brought intothe Same plane at the end of the carline so that both of said horizontalwebs will bear upon the top of the side plate 8. The ends of the twobeams are secured together by means of rivets 9. In order to secure thecarline to the side plates'8, the horizontal flanges of 'the members 5and -6 are separated from the vertical flanges for a distance from theends and the two parts are spread so as to form members 10 and 11respectively which are Each of the beams 5 and 6 is secured to the sideplates'S by means of bolts 12. Secured'in the truss beam 6 is a fillingblock 13, shown in Fig. 3. This filling block may be secured to the beam6 by means of a bolt 14 or in any other suitable manner. Resting uponthe filling block 13 are the purlins 15 supporting the inner roof 16.Above the purlins are the roof strips 17 upon which are placed roofboards 18. 19 is the ridge pole'of the car. It will be noted that thelower face of this ridge pole 19 is somewhat above the line passingthrough the lower faces'of the purlins 15. In order to secure asupportfor the ridge pole 19, the strut 7 is extended somewhat above thetruss beam 6 and is provided with a turned over portion 20 which forms aseat for the ridge pole. This portion 20 can be made of su'fiicient sizeto form an efiective seat for the ridge pole. Formed in this seat 20 area pair of holes 21 through which pass bolts 22 securing the ridge polein position on the, seat 20.

It will be evident that by the use of the extended strut, I am able notonly to form a seat for the ridge pole when the same is out of alinementwith the lower face of the carline, but I am also enabled to secure aseat of sufficient extent to properly support the pole and to providemeans for securing the ridge pole to the seat without weakening thetruss beam of the carline.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new anddesire tosecure by Lettors-Patent of the United States is:

1. A carline comprising a tie beam, and a truss beam, said tie beambeing formed of angle iron, the end of said tie beam having itshorizontalfiange separated'from its ver-= Patented June 12, 1917.

